Music & Snow

"The silence of snow."

Throughout the novel there is no real emphasis on music, instead the novel stresses tranquility and silence that has blanketed the town with the falling of the snow. Speaking out is prohibited, helping to evolve the theme of silence throughout the novel. Ka's emotions and thoughts are put into his poems which are not spoken. The silence in Kars is like a music of its own that helps to depict the struggle of the headscarf girls and their firm stance in their beliefs.